Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

We crave real people and are delighted when we find them.

Suffering often clarifies what really matters in life.

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Ive seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

Melania Trump posted on Twitter -I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. It's the same message she told MSNBC in February [2016].